German woman arrested after 17 stabbed at Hamburg station

German police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of Hamburg.

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Some of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries in the stabbing, which took place in the middle of the city’s evening rush hour, emergency services said.

The suspect, a 39-year-old German woman, was arrested at the scene by law enforcement, a Hamburg police spokesman said said.

Officers “approached her, and the woman allowed herself to be arrested without resistance”, Florian Abbenseth told journalists in comments carried by public broadcaster ARD.

“We have no evidence so far that the woman may had a political motive,” Mr Abbenseth said.